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Very weird we haven’t yet more precise informations of what happened to Charles last weekend during qualifying..

 

I’ve been wondering about that myself.

 

What reason would they have to actually tell us the truth ???

 

Because for now Charles is losing confidence..

 

1 - not to say if Charles was the issue
2 - there was no issue with the car, so reason 1 lol.

 

Yup...same as with Perez in Australia it seems like.

 

This is problematic indeed..

 

Perez is a diferent story, Marko and Horny don't want him to win, the team is all about Max. Marko dislikes Checo and will do everything to hinder him, heck, when his car went out we even saw an engeneer laughing.
And it's sad because Red Bull has no competition, and Max doesn't need help to beat Perez, but i doubt they were driving the same car in Miami.

 

Charles has proven many times he can drive anything, good or bad. Something went wrong with the car.

 

I suspect that Charles is trying to trigger some performance/escape clause in his contract(as Vettel did at RBR).

 

By damaging his own career ?

 

Could be possible, but where to go then?
Unless he is privilegied to some "inside information" that we would learn about only much later...
(and Vettel was already a four-time World Champion when he indulged into that trick...)

Rgds

 

Merc or Aston?

 

Aston would have a certain irony...just like Vettel, whom Charles helped to push out of Ferrari...

Rgds

 

Those are both sideways moves, it wouldn't make any sense unless he hates Vasseur or something. I could see him jumping somewhere in '26 but before then would be pointless unless rb decides to move on from Perez, but that does not seem likely. They don't need max and Charles running into each other like Max was doing when Riccardo was faster. We'll see what happens when the funds run out at rb toward the end of the year. I think Charles stays until the end of '25 and if they don't have things together by then he'll look to leave.

 

I thought about it, but Mercedes was his only other option. Now, we have to ask ourselves, if Charles had his mind set to go there, would Toto take him, or would he prefer to stick with Elton? And does Charles have any way of escaping Ferrari?
The situation for mercedes is a bit like Ferrari in 2006, do we let Shumacher go (he's at the end of his carrrer), to get the next best thing "Kimi" that has many more years to drive? they opted for the future....in Merc case, it's hamilton or a much younger, faster driver, and at half the cost!....i kinow wich one i would pick.....just like in Michael's case, there comes a time when you've gotta think of the future, or you can jeoperdise your future options, no matter how much you like the current drivers you have.